Yay!
DH's blood tests all came back normal!!! So, as the doc said, "that eliminates the scary stuff." She actually called us the day after T-giving to let us know. Very cool. Very, very cool. He still has to go for the CT scan and colonoscopy, but we're very relieved the bloodwork looked normal. Whew.
In the meantime, I'm down another pound. Hard to believe, actually, since I ate full meals this weekend. I only expected to maintain, so the pound down is a nice bonus. Between my brother-in-law's amazing sweet potatoes (he says the secret is the amount of butter - oh my) on Thursday and my mom's fabulous beef stew on Friday, I was sure I had done some damage. But I kept to decent portions and filled myself up on lots of salad.
My mom and I went "shopping" on Saturday (I watched while she shopped) and we dropped off some jewelry to a friend's house who wanted to sell some of my stuff today in an open house. She makes glass beads and she wanted to fill out her inventory. So if she's able to sell a few of my pieces, that'd be a nice holiday bonus. If I can come up with the time to make more, I'll see if any of my friends at work will be interested. Lean times these days...but I know how nice it is sometimes for the "store" to come to you, you know what I mean? We'll see.
So all in all, it was a lovely Thanksgiving weekend! Hoping everybody survived theirs too!
-DD